Mortal Shell

He's an adventurous spirit.

And this game is about Moomintroll, who wakes up in winter um during hibernation his whole family is still asleep he goes out into the world and it's a frozen paradise where he should not be he should be deep in hibernation himself and it is about the adventure that Moomintroll has the reason that I'm getting a code for it now is because it's been on Steam for a while but it's coming out on Switch too and I think that as autumn and winter approach I'm going to try and squeeze in a play of this game as the darkness encroaches here in Iceland because it's the perfect season to play it obviously so really looking forward to that one And a game that I had been very hyped to play was Mortal Shell 2.

I've previewed it a lot.

I played the demo of it.

Mortal Shell 2 is the Souls-like sequel to Mortal Shell.

It is a blowing up of the formula of that game, much more ambitious, much more refined.

It makes some key gameplay changes, such as getting rid of endurance, or rather stamina, which I think is like a mainstay of Souls games, but does slow down combat a lot.

I never really loved stamina systems in games, you know, where you can run for a little while, then you have to run slowly, or you can swing a couple of times, and then you have to back off.

First of all, Guy.

It says here, ask Guy how Mortal Shell is.

Oh.

Because you bought that.

Speaking of this show, let's get on with it.

This week, we're talking to leading indie publisher Playstack, which is probably best known for its 2024 smash hit Balatro, but is also responsible for games like Mortal Shell, Recoin, and it's publishing the upcoming Star Trek Outpost Unknown.

Now, Playstack celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and it's done so by changing owners.

It was acquired by Integrated Media Company, the owner of Fandom and GameSpot, when it valued Playstack at 125 million pounds.

And so to go round three times with someone I think is really encouraging.

But lots of developers we've worked with them a second time.

We have Mortar Shell developers.

We're, we're making Mortar Shell 2 for later this year.

Man, if-

I, I've been playing Mortal Shell too.

Oh, boy.

[laughs]

We may have done it.

No, because it was Mortal Shell, Mind Diver, Star Wars, Cyberpunk, Marvel, Tocon, Call of Duty, Beta.

Really?

Let me check the week before.

Does anyone have one thing? I'm going to go first.

I played and finished Mortal Shell 1 because Isla is so hyped on 2.

I was like, I got to go and finish 1.

Even I

But like...

I want more from this production than that.

If I want that feeling, I'll play Mortal Shell 1.

I'll be like, hey, Mortal Shell 1, that was sick, that was fun, great, good time.

playing Onimusha.

I'm playing Mortal Shell

2.

Wow.

And then as I was getting towards the end of the game, I had a final area left and I was like, I think I just want to

finish the game.

So I kind of just started going to the gates, which if you haven't played Mortal Shell, you do a bunch of different gates, which are kind of like legacy dungeons in Elden Ring.

And then that's how you finish the game is you do all the gates and then you have a final area.